

This Grade 7 worksheet helps students master vocabulary by understanding words with multiple meanings based on context. With engaging activities like true/false statements, word sorting, fill-in-the-blanks, multiple-choice questions, and sentence rewriting, learners become more fluent in recognizing how a single word's meaning shifts depending on how it is used.
Words with multiple meanings help shape communication and expand a student's descriptive power. For Grade 7 learners, this topic is important because:
1. They build a richer, more flexible vocabulary.
2. They help students express exact intent by choosing context-appropriate words.
3. They support critical thinking by analyzing how surrounding words change meaning.
4. They enhance reading comprehension by avoiding confusion when encountering familiar words in unfamiliar contexts.
This worksheet includes five grammar-rich activities that build fluency with multiple-meaning words:
🧠 Exercise 1 – True and False
Students read statements about multiple-meaning words and determine if they are true or false based on accurate definitions. Example: "A bank can be for money or a river."
✏️ Exercise 2 – Sort the Words
Students categorize pairs of words into either 'Multiple-Meaning Words' or 'Single-Meaning Words' to understand how some words carry more than one definition.
📋 Exercise 3 – Fill in the Blanks
Students choose the correct word from the provided pairs to complete the sentence based on its context. Example: "Raj hit the ball with a bat."
📝 Exercise 4 – Multiple Choice Questions
Students pick the correct multiple-meaning word from a list of options to logically complete the sentence. Example: "Ravi sat on the river bank."
✍️ Exercise 5 – Sentence Rewriting
Students rewrite sentences by replacing the underlined descriptive phrases with a single, accurate multiple-meaning word. Example: "She had to climb the steep wall..." → "She had to scale the steep wall..."
Exercise 1 – True or False
1. F 2. F 3. T 4. F 5. T
6. T 7. T 8. F 9. F 10. T
Exercise 2 – Sort the Words
Multiple-Meaning Words:
- bat/bat
- ring/ring
- iron/iron
- current/current
Single-Meaning Words:
- bark/tree
- bank/cash
- feat/feet
- light/lamp
- heard/herd
- watch/look
- rose/flower
- park/car
- road/rode
- scale/map
- won/one
Exercise 3 – Fill in the Blanks
1. bat 2. bark 3. bank 4. light 5. rose
6. watch 7. right 8. fine 9. park 10. scale
Exercise 4 – Multiple Choice Questions
1. b) light 2. d) right 3. a) bat 4. a) bank 5. d) watch
6. b) bark 7. a) park 8. c) fine 9. b) climber 10. a) rose
Exercise 5 – Sentence Rewriting (Sample Corrections)
1. The green current carried the fallen leaves down the river.
2. Every pupil in the classroom listened to the teacher.
3. She had to scale the steep wall to reach the very top.
4. I saw a huge wave crash violently against the rocks.
5. Flowers always begin to bloom beautifully during the spring.
6. I always wear a small digital watch on my left wrist.
7. The local fair will open next Saturday.
8. The big heavy rock rolled down the steep mountain hill.
9. Mother used a hot iron to remove wrinkles from the clean shirt.
10. The small fly began to soar around the bright desk lamp.
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These words have more than one meaning by context.
They ignore sentence clues and choose one meaning only.
Read each sentence and choose the fitting meaning.